Big Spring Walleye, TC Vid

All we need now is good quality mics so you cant hear the wind
[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/-MOLXL1BMYw[/YOUTUBE]

Nice video, when you spoke on colours you said natural colours on a 1/4 ounce jig head. It is weird when people ask or just talk about what baits to use. Everyone has there own opinion of the perception of the fish. Will the fish like the bait I use? Example: I use only bright pink 1/4 ounce jig head all season for walleye. Various plastic baits but all of them bright. Pinks and greens and white. My speed of retrieve is various to the water temperature. I closely watch my speed when I am using lures as well.

Can you let me know next time you guys come up to the Lake, I’ve put 40hrs in this spring and caught nothing but a couple smallies
I’d love to go out with you guys for a bit

This post has been edited by Woodfarmer on Jun 11, 2021 - 06:08 am

On Balsam it was always black 1/4 oz jig head and double tail mister twister in summer. Now I’m at a lake a little further North, I find the white double tail works better.
Others swear by the black bucktail, so who knows?

beautiful . just came back from pigeon . one over slot, one under , got two keepers wed morn . 1,8 oz white grub, bit of worm.

When it comes to how fish perceive color it is science. When it comes to choosing colors that work it is more about having faith in one color over another.

Water depth, clarity, and the amount of available light all have a huge impact on what color is even there for a fish to see at all. On a dark day in stained water all color basically disappears even in shallow water so you are after contrast. On a bright day in perfectly clear water blue and green colors are visible to more than 50' of depth but pink disappears after about 25' and just looks grey. I know lots of very successful fisherman that care little about color and just focus on contrast relative to water clarity. Then I know lots of guys who will swear by a very exact shade of a specific color. What ends up working for most people is what they have faith in because that allows them to focus on action. I tend to stick to the basics, white, black and natural shades of the bait in the area.

Lucky for me I never have to worry about water depth. My foremost walleye fishing is on balsam and sturgeon. I have never actually fished any deeper than 15 feet for walleye ever. Any advice I would give to a friend will only be relevant to these two lakes. My friends fish the other kawartha lakes so I hear what works for them out there.

If the walleye stop going after this stuff my numbers would go down 80 percent.